This story appears in the June 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. The eye is an organ of extreme perfection. I have a strong interest in evolution, and eyes have developed stunning ...

However, some bug bites require medical treatment, including: bites from poisonous insect bites that cause a serious condition like Lyme disease bites or stings from an insect to which you’re ...

When states can expect the winged creatures depends on the weather. As ground temperatures warm to 64 degrees, the cicadas will emerge for the first time in 17 years. The first states to get cicadas ...

That’s why bug bite pictures (or identifying insect bites pictures) are so important. Being able to compare what’s happening on your skin against photos of other people who have been bitten ...

Trillions of evolution's bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have ... but a pump in the cicada's head allows the bug to get fluid that it otherwise wouldn't be able to get out ...

The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the Year competition, a less than scientific social experiment held every year by the Entomological Society of New Zealand to test the ...

As the weather heats up, bugs start to come out. Our best defense against the itchy, painful bites is insect repellent. But some bug sprays will expire eventually. Here's what you need to know.

If you’ve ever found yourself walking through the iconic graffitied arches of Waterloo’s Leake Street Tunnels on a Thursday evening in the last eighteen months, there’s every chance you’ve already ...